The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

The electric light is now being used
IN the Scotch fisheries with great sue
cess.
IF you happen to see o small boy
chasing bumble-bee you will know
when he yells that he has caught it.
AN O'Neill, Neb., girl fell out of
second-story window to the ground,
and landed uninjured on her rubber
hustle.
Buffalo has a woman contractor.
Her name is Mrs. A. M. Holloway, and
she has just secured the contract for
cleaning the streets of that city for five
years by a bid of $447, 900.
The Fire Department of New York
has 1892 men in its employ, two float
ing engines or fire boats, 277 horses and
159. 503 feet of hose. The cost of main
tanning the department is over $1,000
600 annually.
Hello, Jack, where you beenp"
collecting" "What SUGGEST" bad.
I've rummaged the city from one end
to another, and can't find man that
owes me cent. "-Phitadelphia Ne,os.
"A ditch will soon be built from
Rogus river, running through Sans
valley, Oregon, and will irrigate about
100000 acres of land that is now of
comparatively little value, because of
the great lack of water.
THAT is COOL" observed Spilkins,
as the plumbers bill for sixteen dollars
for stopping leak was handed to him.
at may be COOL" replied the man with
the bill, "but it is not collected. -
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
"A Mexican paper says the condition
of the very poor in the City of Mexico
is most lamentable. Neither Naples
nor Constantinople in their lowest
quarters can show worse squalor or
more saddening spectacles.
Probably the biggest yoke of oxen
in the world were on exhibition at the
Eastern Maine State Fair. They were
raised in Vermont, and measure ten
feet in girth and actually weigh 1000
pounds. 1t cost to raise them up to
their great weight over $1,000.
An interesting addition to the
population of Calaveras County, CAL,
is promised, in the shape of colony of
japanese farmers. Land has been
bought for them near. Valley Springs.
and two pioneer members of the colony
are already at work on it.
"A curious landslip occurred on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire railway not
long ago. A passenger train was pass
ing Spring Vale station when the track
and platform sunk two feet, the train
sinking and rising like vessel on the
waves. No injury to passengers re.
suited.
"A nine-year-old child in Bayside,
N. j., while playing in the street was
swept from her feet by the torrent
pouring down gutter after rain
storm, carried for thirty feet through a
twenty four-iach pipe under the Jersey
Central tracks, but rescued as she was
being carried into the tidewater creek.
&C. A. Packard, of Bath, Me-, has a
setter that is greatly admired by q
neighbours family, who entertain him
at dinner occasionally. One of the
family is great knitter, and when the
dog has finished his meal he goes to the
lady's room, brings her knitting to her
and lies at her feet while she goes on
with her work.
"A cat belonging to Boston family
is used to travelling, being taken to the
country every season when the family
goes. This year she had kitten that
she was anxious about, and as soon as
the signs of approaching migration
appeared she packed her little one into
partially filled trunk lest it should be
overlooked.
"A couple of New York gentlemen
were talking about bank cashiers and
Canada. One of them remarked that
he had confidence in his clerk, and had
sent him to Canada with $50, 900 to buy
lumber. "You say you have sent your
clerk with $4,000 to Canada to buy
lumber. and you expect him to come
back?" II do" "Well, you deserve
the red ribbon as the biggest fool alivep'
"But suppose my clerk does come back
all right, FL not be the biggest fool
alive then. will I?' mo; in that case
he will be. "-Teras Sitlings.
Daniel Rogers, a miner near Ora,
Arizona, had both hands blown off at
the wrist Ivy premature discharge OF
giant powder recently. He was alone,
and he walked two miles to deserted
cabin, where he bound up the stumps
of his wrists after fashion with pieces
of curtain, which he tore with his
teeth. He travelled all night, during
which time his trousers became loose
and dropped around his feet. He kicked
off his shoes and the trousers, and at six
o'clock was found lying unconscious
near Mexican cabin. He was taken
to hospital and is getting well.
An American mother travelling in
France offered half-fare ticket for her
son, who lacked several months of the
full-fare age. The collector looked
suspiciOusly at the child and at her.